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| Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. | Charles Dickens | Great Expectations |  |
| Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. | Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone |  |
| It was the women’s tribute to the war. It taxes both alike, and takes the blood of the men, and the tears of the women. | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair |  |
| "I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes." | Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth |  |
| The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is for ever in a passion. | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Virginians |  |
| Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all. | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table |  |
| Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief itself arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain. | Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist |  |
| But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof. | Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist |  |
| " . . . Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy." | Charles Dickens | Our Mutual Friend |  |
| A minute later the bailiff and four of his men rode past him on their journey back to Southampton, the other two having been chosen as grave-diggers. As they passed Alleyne saw that one of the men was wiping his sword-blade upon the mane of his horse. A deadly sickness came over him at the sight, and sitting down by the wayside he burst out weeping, with his nerves all in a jangle. It was a terrible world thought he, and it was hard to know which were the most to be dreaded, the knaves or the men of the law. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The White Company |  |